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09/05/2026

09/04/2026

Today, 4 September, in history in Poland - the beginning of the Częstochowa massacre, also known as the Bloody Monday, committed by the German Wehrmacht forces beginning on the 4th day of World War II in the Polish city of Częstochowa, between 4 and 6 September 1939.

The shootings, beatings, and plunder continued for three days in more than a dozen separate locations around the city. Approximately 1,140 Polish civilians (150 of whom were ethnically Jewish), were murdered.

More at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cz%C4%99stochowa_massacre

08/30/2026

First Polish class for the school year 2026/2027 will be held on September 9th from 7-9 PM, in the Parish Life Center, Good Shepherd Catholic Church, 13550 Chaney Thompson Rd SE, Huntsville, AL.

See the attached photo for the location of the Life Center in the church complex and our classroom. Also, look for the Polish flag in the parking lot.

Agenda:
1. Catching up after the summer
2. News and updates
3. Planning events for the year

See you Wednesday, Sep 9th!

08/29/2026

September 10, 2026 at 6:30 PM, Good Shepherd Catholic Church, Silver Rose Prayer Service. A silver rose prayer service is a Catholic devotional gathering that honors Our Lady of Guadalupe and promotes the sanctity of human life.

Come and participate in the Rosary in 5 languages. Be a participant or a leader in one decade (10 Hail Mary’s) of the rosary in Polish for less than one hour. Women and children are welcome and encouraged to participate. Rosaries and text are provided. If you can speak Polish, come and help, meet, and greet other Poles in the Huntsville community. 13550 Chaney Thompson Rd SE, Huntsville, AL 35803

More about the Silver Rose program at
https://hskoc.org/2025/05/history-of-the-knights-of-columbus-silver-rose-program/

08/22/2026

Today, 22 August, in Polish history - born in Wołów, Poland around 1610 - Maria Cunitz or Maria Cunitia, an accomplished Silesian astronomer, and the most notable female astronomer of the early modern era. She authored a book Urania Propitia, in which she provided new tables, new ephemera, and a simpler working solution to Kepler's second law for determining the position of a planet on its elliptical path. Cunitz crater, a 48.6 kilometer (30.2 mi) diameter crater on Venus is named after her. 12624 Mariacunitia, a main-belt asteroid discovered at the Palomar Observatory in 1960 is also named in honor of her.

08/17/2026

SAINT OF THE DAY, August 17

St. Hyacinth of Poland was born into a noble family in Silesia and was carefully formed in learning and faith. Educated in law and theology, he became a priest and served as a canon in Kraków. His defining calling came when he traveled to Rome with his uncle, Bishop Ivo of Kraków, and encountered St. Dominic, whose preaching stirred in him a missionary fire. St. Hyacinth received the Dominican habit and returned to Poland as one of the first Dominican missionaries there.

He preached through Poland and beyond, founding communities, strengthening the Church, and calling souls back to Christ. One beloved tradition tells that during the Mongol invasion of Kyiv, St. Hyacinth rescued the Blessed Sacrament and, at Mary’s request, carried her statue to safety as well.

After decades of tireless mission, he died in Kraków on August 15, 1257. He is remembered as the “Apostle of the North” and honored as patron of Poland, Lithuania, missionaries, and those in danger of drowning. His feast day is celebrated on August 17.